Originally Posted by wolfing
I believe in AD&D you couldn't get any exp past your next level, you had to 'level up' (or actually in vanilla rules you had to go to a trainer and spend like a month to gain the level, but I don't know any groups that followed that rule)

you never played with us.

It came down to having to level up between modules. Technically, the group could decide to leave and come back if the DM was up for it. He'd then restock it while we were gone.

Its really the thing I dislike most about modern RPG's, this epiphany level up system. With cRPG's you could really enforce it.